Yes. James Ogelthorpe created it for people who were in debt.
Georgia.
The Georgia colony was established as a buffer between Spanish Florida to the south and the English Carolina colonies to the north.
military buffer against the Spanish
a buffer zone against attacks
a buffer zone against attacks
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Before it was a colony, it was an unsettled buffer between British America and Spanish America. In 1733, it became its own colony.
A, Georgia.
Georgia was a buffer to protect England's colonies from Spain and France, whose colonies in Florida and Louisiana, respectively, were very close to Georgia and England's other colonies in the South.
In British North America at the time of the American Revolution the "buffer colony" was Georgia. The colony was founded for the specific reason of protecting the British colonies north of the Savanah river from Spanish Migration and Invasion from that nations settlements in Florida. It was also a buffer against slaves espcaping from the large and prosperous rice plantations in the South Carolina Low Country to freedom under the domain of Spain. In order to facilitate the growth of the colony thousands of persons were freed from Debtors Prisons in England to populate this colony.
Georgia